We come here every Sunday, and
we walk right past the front of the building over at the front
of the fellowship hall over here, and right underneath a sign. Do we notice what that sign says?
I don't know about you folks, but I noticed it every time. It says, if your God is trying, Your pastor is lying. And then it invites you to come
to this building and hear the truth. There is only one truth. And it's every bit of this book
from cover to cover. Well, John, There's men all around who read
from this book. That guy who sits over in that
castle over there in Rome, the Vatican, he reads this book every
day. He talks about a God who's trying. Is he lying as well? Oh, absolutely. It amazes me how much the Lord
has put in His Word to confuse the wise. Our Lord says in His
words, thank thee, O Father, for thou hast hidden these things
from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes. I don't know about you folks,
but I want to be a baby. I talked about this a little
bit in Friday night's study. We, men, sit out and read this book with
every bit of fervor as they can. And I'm not saying we shouldn't.
But man, we've got to be careful. We have got to be so careful
about our studies and how wise we think we have figured things
out. There's a reason why God calls it the mystery of godliness. Because it's a mystery to the
wise. There's a reason why God says
in His Scriptures... Well, let me just read it so
I don't mess it up like I normally do when I try to remember things
from memory. Let me just read it for you here. In 1 Corinthians chapter 1. For it is written, I will destroy
the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding
of the prudent. Where is the wise? Where is the
scribe? Where is the disputer of this
world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? There's some things we just can't
explain. How can you explain that the
Almighty Creator... I was watching a video of some
scientific guy who's had the ability to look through this
new telescope they have up in the sky. He says there's trillions
of galaxies out there that you can't see because there's an
atmosphere of the Earth. Once you get outside the atmosphere,
you get these high-powered telescopes, man, you can see billions and
billions of miles. Jesus Christ created all of that. somebody that powerful, that majestic, and even those
two words don't describe accurately our Lord, humbled himself to
become a servant for a people. If God Almighty, the majestic God, lowered himself
to that point, do you think he's going to lose anybody he died
for? What foolishness! I remember sitting and listening,
hearing the pastor tell us about how powerful Christ is, about
who He is, about what He can do, and how nothing can turn
His hand. And I thought to myself, that
makes more sense about a God than anything I've heard my whole
life. I'd always heard about a God who saved His people, but
is waiting for you to do something. I'll get to it when I want to. Or, you know, some people have
gone out and worked their tail end off, knocking on doors. Won't
you come to God? Won't you come to our church?
And sometimes that works, doesn't it, Mark? Sometimes that works.
You get a bunch of people showing up in church, and the next thing
your coffer is building up, and you're making a nicer building,
and people are like, well, see, the Lord must be with us. Look
at how nice everything is for us here. Look at how many people
are here today. Would you turn in your Bibles
to Acts chapter 17? The invitation on that little
sign above the walkway says this, come and hear the truth. You know this guy who's standing
before you can speak truth to you all day long and you're not
going to hear a word of it unless God does something for you. I heard about God, Jesus, all
my life. Grew up in a church, in a family
where my real father and my stepfather were both preachers. We were
real good friends with the Harris family, a Baptist church over
here off of Madison Avenue. I heard all my life. I would
go once a year with my mom. to a church, just to satisfy
her for Mother's Day. What do you want for Mother's
Day? I want you to go to church with me. OK, I'll do that. Oh,
was it tough to keep my eyes open. When I was a kid, it wasn't
so bad. They'd just walk along and hit
you on the back of the head. Us five kids, or four of us anyway,
my older sister, my brother, me, some friends, we'd sit in
the back queue every time. So that way, it'd be easy for
whoever it was to walk behind us and hit our heads and wake
us up. In my prayer, I ask the Lord to speak to your
heart. Yes, He uses sinners to speak
to sinners about a Savior, but only He can speak to your heart. And I pray, I pray today is a
day that He'll speak to your heart. Listen to these words
from Proverbs 16, verse 6. It says, by mercy and truth,
iniquity is purged. There is a religious group of
folks out there today who believe that Christ works in all churches. Just before service today, it
was shared with me that Vladimir Putin prayed for our president
when he got shot at that rally. And there was excitement in the
voice when they shared that with me. I said, can you believe it? You know he's a professing Christian. I asked this question, I said,
who did he pray to? Well, he's a professing Christian.
He prayed to God, of course. I said, really? I said, there
are a lot of people who pray to what they think is a God. Islam, they pray to what they
think is a God. Buddhists, they pray to what
they think is... Buddhists, God's within you. You're the God in
you. You can raise yourself up to
certain levels if you just do this or do that. That statement, I asked him,
I said, how do you know who he was praying to? Well, he professes
to be a Christian. There's a lot of people who do
that, is what I said, and that was not taken very well. Not
taken very well at all. Folks, in the world that we walk
in, does it not seem hard to know what is true and what is
not? How thankful can a child of the
true and living God be knowing where it is to find truth. Is it any wonder that there are
so many different religions in this world? Any wonder there
are so many different Christian religions? I've shared with you
this before, but if you go to the Bible Belt, and you drive
through a town, one of the major towns in Tennessee or Kentucky,
you'll see big, huge megachurches. We see those around here, Not
very often do you see four of them on four different corners
of an intersection. Back there, you see them all
over the place. Thousands of people. I don't
want to go to that one across the street. They're different
than us. They baptize babies, and we don't believe that. Or
this one over here does that, and we don't believe that. No,
this is where it is right here. They think they're praying to
the true and living God. Is it any wonder? Folks, I'll tell you, when men
interpret the Holy Scriptures, according to their own desire,
it'll be to their destruction. When you take the truth and you
bend it to fit what you think is right, you can come up with
anything. You can literally come up with anything. Have you got your bulletin with
you? Look at an article Right underneath the announcement,
if you would, with me here. Brother Greg Elmquist, he's a
preacher down there, a good gospel preacher down there in Florida.
He wrote concerning the words of John 5.39, Search the Scriptures,
for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they
which testify of me. Now I'm going to read his words
first, but then I want to quote what it says next after that. the Bible looking for lots of
different things. Some are looking for laws to
keep and precepts to perform that they might earn favor with
God by their works. Others are looking to increase
their knowledge of doctrine, theology, or historical events
that they might have something to boast in themselves with men. of end times that they might
be able to interpret current events and better control their
future. Some even look to prove from
the Bible that the earth is flat. For what reason, he says, I don't
understand, I don't know. Amazingly, what men look for
is exactly what they find. Let us look for Christ. He is
in the volume of the book. The Bible from start to finish
is God's revelation of the glorious person and accomplished work
of the Lord Jesus Christ. These are they which testify
of Me. We will find what we're looking
for. Search the Scriptures looking for Christ. For in Him is eternal
life. You know what it says right after
that part of the verse where it says, search the Scriptures
who has testified to me, he says, that ye will not come unto me
that ye may have life. That's speaking about every man,
woman, and child that's ever walked this earth. We will not
come to Christ that we may have life. That's not what the churches
are teaching though, is it? No, they teach that God has done
all that He can get baptized, worship on Saturday,
go on and on and on, and you can have a whole list of people
that you'd be worshiping all the way down the street. That's what people who are dead
spiritually do. Dead in trespasses and sin. You
cannot walk in the newness of life except you be given life
to walk therein. Mankind and their spiritual deadness
have made up all kinds of gods with their imagination. Are you
with me in Acts chapter 17? Paul was at Mars Hill and he
observed a token dedicated to an unknown god. Look at verses
22-31 with me in Acts chapter 17. Then Paul, verse 22, then
Paul stood in the all things ye are too superstitious. I want that to seek in. He goes
on in verse 23, he says, For as I passed by and beheld your
devotions, I found an altar with this inscripted to the unknown
God, whom therefore ye ignorantly worship him, declare I unto you."
Now, I want to go back and read that part again, because that
can be difficult to read if you go over it too quickly. It says,
whom, speaking of the unknown God, whom this one that you ignorantly
worship, Paul says, Him, declare I unto you. What a door the Lord
opened for Paul to preach of the unknown God. That's who our
God is. He's unknown. In truth, He is
unknown to every man, woman, and child until God the Father
reveals Him to us. And that's the truth of God's
Word. You can find it throughout scriptures.
Over and over again, our Lord tells us, I, He says, I will
plant my laws in your hearts. I will give you a new heart.
I will lead you to this way. I will cause you to do this.
There's nowhere in Scriptures at all that the Lord says, I'm
waiting for you to do something. They like to take that one Scripture,
I forget where it's at now, where it says, choose you whom you
will serve. See there, John? See? God's asking you, who are you
going to serve? You know what that's talking about? If you
go back and you read four or five verses before and four or
five verses after, you find out that they were worshiping a whole
bunch of different gods, just like these. They had a whole
bunch of different gods, and he said to them, you go choose
whichever one of those you want. They're all worthless. They're
all just figments of your imagination. When Christ speaks of His calling
of His people, He speaks with power because He's God. He is truly God. The question is, is He your God? Is He your God? Let's go on here. Paul goes on in verse 24 to say
this, he says, God that hath made the world and all things
therein, seeing that He is the Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth
not in temples made with hands." Folks, do you know what the word
church means? Called out. Exactly. Amen. You've been studying. The people called out. The congregation. We're the church. God dwells in the temples not
made with hands, but the one that He created in us. The very
one that He gave life to in us when He cut out that old stony
heart that said, I will not have Him to rule over me. And He says
now with a new heart, I bow. I bow to my Lord, who is the
Lord of everything, whether you bow to Him or not. Trust me,
he says that if you go through that doormark death, and you
haven't bowed to him by then, you will bow to him after that.
Unfortunately, it'll be too late. The unforgivable sin is to go
through that doormark death in unbelief. If God has given you
true belief, if God has given you the true gift of faith, You will not go through that
doormark death in unbelief. God doesn't fail. If He could,
He's not God. Let's go on, shall we? Verse
25, neither is worship with men's hands as though He needed anything,
seeing He give it to all life and breath and all things, and
hath made the time before the appointed
and the bounds of their habitation. Does that sound like a God who
just did something and is now waiting for men to do something
with it? Does that sound like a God who's, I'm here to help
you? Verse 27, that they should seek
the Lord, if happily they might feel after Him and find Him,
though He be not far from every one of us. For in Him we live
and move and have our being, as certain as also of our own
poets have said, for we are also His offspring. For as much as
then we are of the offspring of God, we ought not to think
that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone, graven
by art and man's device. But the times of this ignorance
God winked at, And the times of this ignorance
God winked at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent,
because He hath appointed a day in which He will judge the world
in righteousness by that man whom He hath ordained ware of,
He hath given assurance unto all men, and that He hath raised
him from the dead." The true and living God is unknown in
natural men. Paul used that superstitious
plaque to preach the true and living God to those religious
people. There's a man by the name of Josephus, he's not a
religious, he's not even a godly man, but he was a historian who
kept pretty good and pretty accurate records of history back then,
and he said that the boulevard that Paul walked on was about
a quarter of a mile, and there was at least 30, if not more,
sitting on posts going along, and all the way down at the end,
just in case you missed out on one of the other ones here is
that unknown god. According to Josephus, it was
the smallest post on the boulevard. It was almost an afterthought.
Here they had set up an alternate to the unknown God, not knowing
that Paul was going to preach about the true and living God.
Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians, he says in verse 4 of chapter
11, for if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, let him be accursed. I think that this is the message
that James first heard. five years ago, where the Lord spoke to his heart.
He recalled the religion that he had left many years before,
and he said, when I heard you talking about this other Jesus,
that's what those folks that I left so many years ago were
preaching about. I've never heard this word till
today. John didn't speak to his heart.
He hasn't come faithfully for the last five years because of
John. He comes because the Word of
Truth is spoken. God's not waiting for people.
Salvation is of the Lord. It's not of the Lord and you
plus you. It's of the Lord, period. And God's people are thankful
for that, because if you're like John Reeves, you know that if
God's going to give you the ability to do anything, you're going
to mess it up. You're going to destroy it. And that's exactly what the flesh
would do to the perfection of Jesus Christ. And that's what
Jesus Christ is. He's perfect in everything that
He did, including going to the grave, including being made my
sin. He knew no sin. He had no sin
of his own. But when God the Father made
God the Son sin, it was done perfectly. That's a mystery I
can't tell you anything about. I just know that it's so. And
I'm thankful for it because that means all of my sins were laid
on Him. and he perfectly took it into
the grave and left it there when he arose again to sit on his
throne. Wasn't Cain, you know the story
of Cain and Abel? Abel brought a sacrifice, an
animal. Killed an animal according to
what his daddy had taught him, Adam. Cain, his brother, didn't
want to do it that way. What's wrong with my stew? I
can make an herbal stew. I've got these great herbs that
I've been growing. Talk about flavor. Oh man, it's good stuff. Salt
and pepper and all kinds of different herbs. I can make a great stew.
He didn't want to do it God's way. That's natural man. Did
not Cain bring another Jesus to his to his altar? Absolutely! Men have taken the points that
they desire and corrupted to the true word of God. Oh, it
can't be, it has to be my free will. I'm not a puppet. God's given me the right to decide.
You're right. But you're going to make the
wrong decision. I guarantee you, that's your nature. It's not
our nature to submit ourselves to him as Lord. It's our nature
to say, well, I'm going to do it my way. That's why Elvis'
song was such a hit. Actually, I think Elvis copied
somebody else. You don't ask. We've used our human feelings
to interpret the truth of God's Word since the beginning of Adam
and Eve. Turn over to Jude. That's the
little teeny book right there before Revelation. I want to
read something for you from Jude chapter 3. That's just two pages
right there in front of Revelation. I can't hear you. Yeah, what did I say? Oh, did
I say chapter? Oh, thank you. Yeah, there's
only one chapter. You're right. Look at verse 3.
Jude verse 3. Beloved, when I gave all diligence
to write unto you of the common salvation, It was needful for
me to write unto you and exhort you that ye should earnestly
contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints."
That's what I'm doing today, folks. I'm telling you about
the faith of God. It's not just the faith of believing
who He is, it's knowing that your belief has come from Him
as well. It's every aspect of our salvation
is of Him. Verse 4. For there are certain men crept
in, unawares, that means secretly, unknown, to this condemnation, ordained
to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our
God into lasciviousness, wickedness is what that means, evil, and
denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. When you
say it's my will, when you say it's my decision, when you take
anything away from God's salvation, that salvation is of the Lord,
when you take anything away, you are denying Jesus Christ. The scripture says, whosoever
believeth in me. You know what that means? Not just what you want. There's only one truth. Today is no different than it
was in the day of Cain and Abel. When Adam fell, he plunged the
entire human race into sin, into condemnation, Listen to Deuteronomy 32, verse
4. He, speaking of the Lord Jesus
Christ, is the Rock. His work is perfect. For all
His ways are judgment. A God of truth and without iniquity,
just and right is He. 2 Samuel 2, verse 6. And now the Lord show kindness
and truth unto you. 1 Kings 7.24, And the woman said
to Elijah, Now this I know, that thou art a man of God, and that
the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth. We sing the song, Once
I was blind, but now I see. I see how true this Bible truly
is about the true and living God. I know I said true too many
times, almost redundantly. You got the point though. Psalms 25 verse 5, Lead me in
thy truth, and teach me, for thou art the God of my salvation,
unto thee do I wait all the day. Psalms 33 verse 4, For the word
of the Lord is right, and all his works are done in truth. So many in today's world want
to tell us, oh, there's salvation going on in all kinds of churches. There's no difference between
this church or that church. Really? How many differences do you think
there were between the unknown God and that whole boulevard
that Paul walked on? How many differences do you think
there are between the four megachurches on one corner Tennessee. How many differences do you think
there are between us and that church across the street who
claims to be Christian as well? I got myself in trouble once.
I said, you want to know the differences? Go over there and
listen to them one Sunday. You're telling people to go to
another church and listen? I'm telling you this, that if
you belong to God, it's not going to hurt you one bit. In fact, He might even teach
you something. Folks, nothing. If He's the Almighty, if He's all-powerful, all-knowing,
knowing anything before it even happens, able to do whatever
He wants, create anything. We talked about this in Bible
study today. If He wanted to, He could make a donkey speak.
He's done it! If He wanted to, He could stop
the sun at noon. He's done it! If He wanted to,
He could split the Red Sea and let people walk on dry land. He's done it! He's God! Do you think He's going to let
one of His people go? for whom he died. Isn't that
what we read in Romans chapter 8? Who can lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? What, does that give us a license
just to go out and sin willy-nilly, whatever we want? Absolutely
not! I've told you this before. If
sin doesn't bother you, you have a problem. You don't know God. I've never once said that you
can stop doing it, though. I've never once told you that
you can do anything to satisfy God's law. We don't need to,
folks. We have one who's done it for
us. Turn over to Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter 8, verse 1. I want you to read this. This
is for those who belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, and if you
don't know this already, He will bring you to know this. He says
in His Word, All that the Father giveth me shall come to me. In Romans 8, verse 1, it says,
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. There's no condemnation to us.
All the sins that I have committed since the moment I got up this
morning have been laid on my Savior already. All the sins
that I will commit after I leave the building, the ones that are
going through my mind right now, have been laid on my Savior.
The devil, the tempter, the one who challenges us in our daily
walk and says, see what you did? How could you be saved if you're
that way? Have you ever thought that about yourself? How can
I be saved thinking about that guy who just cut me off in traffic? Read these words next time that
tempter comes to you. There is therefore now no condemnation. Why? Because everything God could
condemn me for was condemned in my Savior. That's what salvation
is. That's what the gospel is. That's
what preaching Christ and Him crucified is. Folks, we must worship in spirit
and in truth. You can't mix in a little bit
of, well, there's a little bit of this, that's okay, it's not
so bad. Yes, it is. You can't add anything into it.
It's either grace or works. If you don't believe in grace,
then you believe in works. And works destroy grace, and
grace destroys works. It's like light and day. You
ever think about that? You're in a room. Everything's
dark. And you turn the light on. And
as long as there's no shadows from anything, everything is
lit up. All the dark is gone. Light overpowers darkness, doesn't
it? That's kind of mind-blowing, isn't it? Natural men, unconverted, unregenerate
men cannot worship in truth, for the truth is enmity to our
nature. Listen to John 3, verse 19 through
21. This is condemnation. Remember
what we just read there in Romans chapter 8. There is therefore
now no condemnation. In John chapter 3 verse 19, this
is condemnation, that light is coming to the world, and men
love darkness rather than light. Because the deeds were evil.
For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh
to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. And lest
God gives you a new heart, you don't want to come to the light.
God's people know that, don't we? I would never want to come to
Christ. Why? Because it's completely against
what I like to do until Christ called me out of that. I enjoyed
the darkness. I love to be my own ruler, my
own God, the decider of my own destiny. I didn't want to be
bowed to somebody else, let them be ruler over me. I didn't know
that God already was a ruler over me. It was Him who brought
me to this church to hear His Word. It was Him who brought
you here to hear the Gospel, the truth. Everyone that doeth evil, hateth
the light, Neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should
be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh
to the light." Isn't that what we're here for today? To see
the light of our Savior. Folks, we've been walking through
this world for the last seven days. I need to hear about my
Savior. I need to come together and hear
with God's saints how I have a Savior. I can get outside that
door and five minutes after I get out of it, I can forget and think,
oh, I can do this. No, John, you can't. He that doeth the truth cometh
to the light, and that his deeds may be manifest, that he might
be wrought in God. Romans 8, verses 5-8, we read
these, For they that are after the flesh do mind the things
of the flesh, but they that are after the Spirit the things of
the spirit. For to be carnally minded is
death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind, that
means our natural mind, is enmity against God. For it is not subject
to the law of God, neither indeed can be, so then they that are
of the flesh cannot please God. We must worship the spirit in
spirit and in truth. What is it to worship in spirit? It is to know the truth. Allow
me to read for you from Matthew 16. verse 13-17, and I'm going to
read it kind of fast because we're running behind here. It
says, When Jesus came into the coast of Caesarea Philippi, He
asked His disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I, the Son
of Man, am? Who are you? I mean, who do they
say that I am? He says to His disciples. And
then His disciples answered and said, Some say that thou art
John the Baptist, or maybe Elias, or Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.
And then the Lord turned to them and said unto them, but whom
say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and
said, thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. He said
it from the heart. He knew it from the heart who
this one stood before him was. And Jesus answered and said,
blessed art thou. What is it to worship in spirit
and in truth? It is to know the truth of who
Christ is. It is to know the truth of our
depravity. Let me read another one, if you
would. Romans chapter 3, verses 9-18. What then? Are we better than
they? You know what I think of when
I read that verse? Are we holier than thou? See,
I grew up in that. I grew up in that holier-than-thou.
Oh, we're so holy, we worship every Sunday. Oh, we're so holy,
we don't drink. Oh, we're so holy, we don't smoke.
What then? Are we better than they? Look
what Paul says, No, in no wise, for we have before proved, both
Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin. I'm going to stop there instead
of going all the way through it for time. But to worship in spirit and
in truth is to know our depravity. Am I any different from the guy
across the street? No. My Savior is. The one who rules all things,
He's different than what they're preaching over there. But I'm
no different. And neither are you. We're all under sin. Isn't that
what it just read in Scriptures? What is it to worship in spirit
and truth? It is to know the truth of His
grace. Let me read for you from John.
I don't even have to turn to it. John 1, verse 14. And the
Word was manifest in the flesh, and we beheld His glory as the
only begotten of the Father. That's Jesus Christ. Did you know that the coming
of Christ the first time was all about grace? Well, think
about it. If He humbled Himself to become
a servant, the only reason He would do that is out of love
and grace. So His first coming is purely for grace. It's to
know the truth of His grace, to know the truth of who He is.
As we see in John 1, verse 1, In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. To worship in spirit and truth
is to know the truth of what He has done. Folks, He, by one
offering, Hebrews chapter 10 verse 14, by one offering purged
the sins of His people forever. I like that word purged. I might
preach on that next Sunday. Purged. It's a funny sounding
word, but it means so much. Washed as white as snow. Listen to 1 John 1, verse 5. This then is the message we which
have heard of Him and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him
is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship
with Him and we walk in darkness, we lie, and we do not the truth. But if we walk in the light,
As He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another.
In the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son cleanseth us from all
sin. If God has given you, if God
has given us a new spirit to worship Him in truth, should
we not put all the world behind us as far as worship is concerned. Turn to Colossians chapter 3,
and we'll bring this to a close. Colossians is right after Philippians,
which is right after Ephesians, and just before the three Ts.
Thessalonians, Timothy, and Titus. Colossians chapter 3, beginning
at verse 1, we read these words. If ye then be risen with Christ,
seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right
hand of God. Set your affection on things
above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life
is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life,
shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. Mortify
therefore your members, which are upon the earth, fornication,
uncleanliness, inordinate affection, evil consciousness, and covetousness,
which is idolatry, for which things sake the wrath of God
cometh upon the children of disobedience, and to which ye also walked some
time when ye lived in them. But now ye are also put off all
these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy, communicate,
communication out of that mouth. You might stop, stop there for
just a moment. When did I do that? Is that what
you're thinking? Are you reading these very words
and thinking, well, that doesn't apply to me. I had malice in my heart today.
I had blasphemy. I doubted God
for just a moment. I had blasphemy. Folks, in Christ
we've done everything perfectly. Have you got that yet? Has it
got into our brains yet? Here, let me pound a little harder
on that etymine. In Christ we have done everything
perfectly. Every walk, all of these things,
we put off. Because we look to our Savior.
Look at verse 9. "...Lie not one to another, seeing that ye
have put off all the old man with his deeds, and have put
on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the things
of him that created him." Isn't that wonderful? Is that not good
news? Are there sinners here today
who needed to hear good news? Oh, I pray the Lord spoke to
your hearts. Oh, I pray the Lord gave you
a sense of the knowledge of His truth. I have an article and
I don't have enough time to read it today. If you're interested and there's
not enough copies, I will run at full speed and make more copies. But there are four copies of
this article written by our brother Mike Lovis about truth. And I'm
telling you, it'll bless your hearts. Take it home with you.
It's a rather lengthy one. It's almost two pages. But I
just know that if you love the truth as I do, it'll be a great
lesson to your hearts.